Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Telephone telepathy


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. postdlf (talk) 18:13, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Telephone telepathy

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Appears to be sourced entirely by primary sources. It is devoid of criticism and appears to cater to proponents of the idea. I haven't found any mainstream scientific WP:RS that discuss it, only a few news articles from 2006. Not notable and runs afoul of WP:FRINGE. Even if an encyclopedic treatment were possible, it would share nothing in common with this article. Vzaak (talk) 23:56, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Paranormal-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 00:16, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Language-related deletion discussions. Northamerica1000(talk) 00:16, 3 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete and Merge Redirect to Rupert Sheldrake. Some news coverage can be useful to summarize and report this relatively minor aspect of Sheldrake's rejected precognition studies at the main bio article. - LuckyLouie (talk) 00:29, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't understand the merge part. There's nothing to merge; the article just contains primary sources touting fringe, no news reports. Vzaak (talk) 00:39, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry, meant Redirect, since the article has no useable non-primary sources. - LuckyLouie (talk) 01:23, 3 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete. A Redirect to Rupert Sheldrake seems a good idea.Nickm57 (talk) 01:45, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect to Rupert Sheldrake, per LuckyLouie. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 04:28, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment. You do all realize that an article doesn't have to be deleted first before it is redirected, don't you?  Erpert  Who is this guy? 05:26, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes I know it sounds silly, but I have seen AfD's with 3 "keep", 3 "delete", 3, "redirect" and 3 "merge" closed as "no consensus", so I always include delete with a merge or redirect recommendation. - LuckyLouie (talk) 11:53, 3 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete the content from this page. It appears to have been written by a Sheldrake fan, and I'm afraid it comes with the territory that said author must be scientifically illiterate and incapable of basic critical thinking, and therefore incapable of implementing WP:FRINGE per WP:COMPETENCE.  The article contains far too much primary data, yet very little on the design of the experiment or how this is compatible with the principles of experimental design that aim to avoid bias.  The statistics merely discusses the chance of the results happening, whereas a proper statistical analysis would assess the probability that the null hypothesis is true.  It also contains nothing critical of Sheldrake, which given that Sheldrake has little to no support within the scientific community, is highly surprising.  Therefore deleting the content is good idea.  Redirecting to Rupert Sheldrake is then a possibility, although I vote for no prejudice against recreation with better content if someone can write an article compatible with WP:FRINGE.  Such an article isn't going to look good for Sheldrake. Barney the barney barney (talk) 09:23, 3 September 2013 (UTC)


 * Delete The claims of "Telephone telepathy" by Sheldrake are not independently notable and are better put in the context of Sheldrake, the originator. I found some passing coverage (and coverage by a blog ), but nothing indicative of GNG (of course meeting GNG does not require an article to exist, we can make editorial decisions based on a better presentation of something in a greater context). Not worth merging any of the content. Implausible redirect with few page views . IRWolfie- (talk) 23:27, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
 * Delete and redirect to Rupert Sheldrake, per LuckyLouie. Dbrodbeck (talk) 15:01, 7 September 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.